From: Matthew Thode <mthode@mthode.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 00:31:57 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: net: reject creation of netdev names with colons
X-Git-Tag: v3.2.69~27
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d501ebeb7da7531e92e3c8d194730341c314ff2d;p=pandora-kernel.git

net: reject creation of netdev names with colons

[ Upstream commit a4176a9391868bfa87705bcd2e3b49e9b9dd2996 ]

colons are used as a separator in netdev device lookup in dev_ioctl.c

Specific functions are SIOCGIFTXQLEN SIOCETHTOOL SIOCSIFNAME

Signed-off-by: Matthew Thode <mthode@mthode.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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